Do you feel overwhelmed or approaching burnout as a personal trainer? It's important to prioritize self-care and manage your mindset to maintain a healthy work-life balance and be effective in your role.

If you're thinking about becoming a personal trainer, one of the first steps is to get a job as a personal trainer for experience. While the role of personal trainer might not be too daunting, the personal trainer job interview can be.

One of the biggest mistakes personal trainers make is thinking of themself as a personal trainer. Seriously. When you think of yourself as a personal trainer, you're thinking of yourself as the employee of your business, because personal training is the service.

Building up a personal training career can be quite challenging especially if you haven't got any other streams of income and your livelihood depends on having enough clients. That's stress enough in itself and many newbie trainers might be willing to anything to fill their calendar, including pulling 12-15hr days between 6am and 8-9pm. 

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. “Neuro” relates to the neurology of the individual client, those physical aspects of the brain’s wiring and how that relates to their mental and emotional connection with any experience. “Linguistic” relates to the language someone uses to communicate with others, and more importantly - the way the client talks to themselves, internally. “Programming” is about how this can be used as a functional tool.

​Today we are going to explore client motivation. Without it, you won’t be able to hold on to clients for long. Yet if you can keep it high, you’ll get boosted client results, have a higher client retention and improve your reviews and referrals, which will all give you an enhanced income. 

​Sometimes, career paths just lay themselves out before us. For fitness enthusiasts, that can mean turning their passion into a lucrative business.

Fitness is an area where a large portion of the population struggles. One-third of adults over 35 in England are obese. However, when they look at a fit personal trainer, it's easy to expect that they have all the answers.

Newbie and even seasoned personal trainers looking for directions and inspirations keep asking about reading material and resources to help their professional and business development.

If you're a personal trainer who wants to get results for your clients, you're going to need to have a conversation with them about calories. Whether it’s counting them, watching them, or blaming them for making us put on weight.

But how many of us actually know how to describe them? Or even teach them to our clients?

The power of an online community and its impact on your personal trainer business is extremely high. Building a solid online community adds to your credibility, while also helping you attract new customers. This is especially true for fitness businesses that thrive on customer recommendations and online reviews.